Deepak Rao Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

As a solution analyst, my role involves both management consulting as well as product development. For example, I have been involved in projects where I have:- Identified up to $17M in opportunity to improve power generation performance at a major U.S utility by analyzing client’s fuel spend and generation data, conducting benchmark analysis, and interviewing stakeholders- Diagnosed challenges for F500 company’s IT incident management process by examining ticket data, identifying trends, and interviewing stakeholders to understand pain points; hosted workshop with client leadership to set action items, goals, and process changes for resolution- Defined user personas, functionalities, and assisted with developing a UX mockup for an electric grid predictive maintenance and work management optimization tool- Assisted with development of a contracts evaluation proof of concept that achieved 90%+ accuracy in automatically evaluating procurement contracts for favorable terms by interviewing SMEs, documenting evaluation criteria, and converting business logic into GenAI prompts

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Improved fixed asset accounting processes at a leading e-commerce firm by analyzing integrations between IT systems and identifying gaps in the asset lifecycle management process through interviewing users across operations, accounting, and finance- Documented business requirements, user stories, and pain points and partnered with client’s dev-ops team to address gaps in systems integrations

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States

Data Science and Optimization- Reduced wind farm construction costs by ~$200K by deploying a PyCaret AutoML model and Power BI dashboards to more accurately predict arrivals of construction components- Assisted with development of a web app that will save ~$100K and hundreds of hours over 5 years by automatically transcribing regulatory hearings and meetings with AWS Transcribe, DynamoDB, and Lambda functions- Reduced manual data entry by creating a Python natural language processing script to extract relevant information from lease agreement documents using the spaCy NLP package and Regular Expressions- Built a working knowledge of many AWS offerings such as Lambda, ECS, and SageMaker- Developed an understanding of Agile methodologies and Jira